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Many of you will be waking up to news of the sad death of Rick Mayall last night. The 56-year-old features prominently on today's front page, but in true Daily Record fashion, we'll be celebrating the Young Ones actor's life. We've got all the latest news, sport, entertainment and weather as well as some all-important morning travel updates coming in from the major transport networks. Sit back between now and 10am and let the news come to you for a change.

6:37 am

Pat Roller

Good morning everyone and welcome to Tuesday. We've another packed paper to make our way through this morning.

The sad news emerging last night of Rik Mayall's untimely death at the age of 56 is marked with the iconic sepia cheeky-chappy photo that shows the comic at his best adorning our front page today.

The Deila news train shows no sign of slowing down, so well have reaction and opinions on his transfer to Celtic later on.

The 21st Century foxes of politics are strutting their stuff on the referendum catwalk, seeing as Alex Salmond reportedly puts female voters right off. And men voters. And iguana voters... hmmm.

First up.. let's take a look at the stories making it big on the site this morning!

In today's paper, Record Sport reveals how brothers Sandy and James Easdale travelled to meet with representatives of shareholders groups Blue Pitch Holdings and Margarita Holdings before staging further discussions with the rest of the Ibrox regime yesterday afternoon.

However, Wallace did say to the increasingly disgruntled supporters: "The fans can expect to see some further new faces coming to the club in the near future" and sources suggest Ally McCoist has his eye on promising Dundee United youngster Charlie Telfer.

We tell the tale of former Scotland and Hibs star Garry O'Connor's spectacular fall from grace today but he isn't the first Scottish footballer to see his career hit the skids. Check our gallery of fallen heroes.

6:55 am

In fact, Garry O'Connor is the subject of another leading story on the Daily Record website. You're still all talking about the discovery that the disgraced former Scotland International, who once earned £16,000 a week has moved into a modest £65 a week council house.

The family’s downgraded lifestyle is a far cry from O’Connor’s heyday when he earned a fortune, lived in a £1.3million mansion and drove a £100,000 Ferrari.

The move to the Law View estate in North Berwick, East Lothian, is the latest twist in the rise and fall of the former Scotland and Hibs star.

In a career marred by drug scandals, court appearances, debt problems and professional humiliation, O’Connor has gone from hero to zero.

6:58 am

Football legend Ian St John is battling cancer and says the prognosis is not good as he requires more surgery.

The former Scotland striker has already had his bladder and prostate removed but the 76-year-old must go under the knife again to try to stop the spread of the disease.

Let's take a look at today's weather forecast across Scotland. It looks like it's going to be another day where the weatherman can't decide what's to fill the skies - rain or shine? Who knows.. but with any luck it'll be sunny where you are. As always, you have our friends at the MET Office to thank for the daily outlook so give them a round of applause and we might get a clap or two of thunder back to clear this clamminess we're experiencing. Eurgh..

Strathclyde

A dry start with some bright or sunny intervals. A warm day however, as temperatures rise then a scattering of showers will develop. These will become heavy with the risk of hail and thunder, but mainly focused over the hills. Maximum Temperature 18 °C.

Lothian and Borders

A dry start with some bright or sunny intervals however showers will soon develop over Galloway. The showers will become more widespread for a time in the morning before turning more isolated in the afternoon. Warm, particularly in Edinburgh. Maximum Temperature 20 °C.

Central, Tayside and Fife

A dry start with some bright or sunny intervals. A warm day however, as temperatures rise then a scattering of showers will develop. These will become heavy with the risk of hail and thunder, but mainly focused over the hills. Maximum Temperature 20 °C.

Grampian

A dry start with some bright or sunny intervals. A warm day however, as temperatures rise then a scattering of showers will develop. These will become heavy with the risk of hail and thunder, but mainly focused over the hills. Maximum Temperature 20 °C.

Highlands

A cloudy and wet start in Caithness. Elsewhere it's a mixture of sunny intervals and showers from first light. These showers will be heavy with the risk of thunder and hail, particularly over Lochaber. Winds will generally be light. Maximum Temperature 20 °C.

7:08 am

A council paid £35,000 to specialist sniffers to analyse odours at a waste treatment plant. The experts said there were "some problems" at the Leicester site.

The SNP leader will contest the next Holyrood election in 2016 even if voters reject his plans for a separate Scotland in the September 18 referendum.

He revealed: “I intend to stand again in 2016. Whatever the political circumstances, there will be an election in 2016 and the people will choose the First Minister.

Yeah, and Arnie will come back for a final Terminator film after Skynet is defeated. Or maybe Sam Wise will go back to Mordor just for the sake of it. Oh, and Garry O'Connor's agent is in one-way talks with Real Madrid.

7:25 am

Chicken ice cream and woof woof brownies are on the menu at a new cafe.. for dogs. Joel Ariaman, boss of Chubby Chops in Brighton, said: "People thought we were crazy".

Just a bit.. bit I hear that the only rule is "no cats allowed" so that more than makes up for it.

It pains us to say it but there was pandamonium at Hong Kong airport yesterday. The place was packed with papier-mache pandas - and punters peering at the picture-perfect poppets.

French artist Paulo Grangeon created 1600 of the sculptures, which crowded out a portion of the arrivals hall. The installation - snappily named 1600 Pandas World Tour in Hong Kong: Creativity meets Conservation - will be there for a month to draw attention to the endangered specis.

And with his talent for reproducing pandas, maybe Paulo should consider a job with the Edinburgh Zoo breeding programme..

In a final farewell to his Norwegian team, Deila just about managed to hold back the tears in a final emotional farewell to Stromsgodset. He's back in Glasgow today to start full-time life as the new Celtic boss but was given an incredible send off in Drammen.

In a Record Sport exclusive, we report on the Rangers directors who are in showdown talks in London in an attempt to fend off the chaos. The Easdales met with representatives of shareholder groups in an attempt to get one step closer to a solution for peace at Ibrox.

Hazza chose the final UK gig of 1D’s current tour to show off the accessory in front of family, close friends like Mossy, Stella McCartney, Radio 1 DJ Nick Grimshaw and boss Simon Cowell.

Oh, and 90,000 screaming fans.

8:28 am

In India, a gold chain thief was forced to eat 96 bananas to help flush out the swallowed item from his body.

Damu Gupta, 28, was arrested after train passengers called him out as the thief who stole the jewelry from Dr. Sheetal Kamble. Gupta initially denied the act, but then a passenger saw him swallowing the item.